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Gay marriage: Not like interracial marriage, not like a defective Toyota

By | 08.03.10 | 10:56 am

As Judge Vaughn Walker prepares his decision in the historic California Proposition 8 gay marriage trial and the National Organization for Marriage continues its anti-gay marriage interstate bus tour, two dispatches of note come today from the fray. The…

Freshman Year, the gay marriage episode: Polis versus Chaffetz

By | 12.23.09 | 3:10 pm

Colorado U.S. Rep. Jared Polis is an openly gay Democrat internet millionaire who fights for gay rights. Utah U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz is a Mormon Republican skin-care professional who is now fighting to revoke the right to gay marry in…

Sundance to premiere film documenting Mormon push to defeat gay marriage

By | 12.11.09 | 1:13 pm

The Mormon church poured money and effort into the campaign to pass Proposition 8 in California, the initiative that outlawed gay marriage there. Director Reed Cowan’s documentary about the effort was accepted into the Sundance film festival and…

Marriage defenders celebrate victory in New York, await investigation in Maine

By | 12.02.09 | 3:55 pm

The National Organization for Marriage is pouring salt in the wound after the gay marriage defeat in New York with a celebratory fundraiser release sent out by the organization’s Brian Brown. He writes that the $600,000 the group spent…

Marriage defender spokeswoman expresses bafflement at Prejean attacks

By | 11.17.09 | 2:50 pm

Maggie Gallagher, head of the National Organization for Marriage, responded today to questions from the media on whether NOM dropped its relationship with scandal-plagued former Miss USA Carrie Prejean.

Gallagher posted statements at the National Review’s “the corner”…

Sextape partygirl Prejean dropped by marriage defenders

By | 11.16.09 | 11:15 am

Carrie Prejean, the decrowned Miss California USA and darling of the Christian right, appears to have been scrubbed from the National Organization for Marriage website. The move comes in the wake of a TMZ interview with the man